I Travelled 25000 Km In Siberia To Photograph Its Indigenous People

[Kazimiera]

I Travelled 25000 Km In Siberia To Photograph Its Indigenous People

Source: http://www.boredpanda.com/indigenous..._campaign=wtfu

Hi! My name is Alexander Khimushin. Nine years ago I packed my backpack to see the world and have been globe-trotting ever since visited 84 countries. While travelling the world, I realized that people are the most amazing part of it.

Three years ago I came up with an idea of the photo project 'The World In Faces' that would celebrate beauty and diversity of the world through the portraits of ordinary people. Especially from those remote places, where culture and traditions are still alive. Since then I have taken thousands of portraits all over the world. Last six months I photographed indigenous people of Siberia.

An enormous region, almost a double size of Australia and 30% larger than the United States, Canada or the whole Europe. Siberia is one of the world’s last frontiers of the unknown. No doubt, everyone heard that it is very cold and sparsely populated, but what do we know about people living there?

During my half-a-year-long solo journey, I covered 25,000 km to visit many remote locations across Siberia: from lake Baikal shores to the coast of Japan sea, from endless steppes of Mongolia to the coldest place on Earth - Yakutia. All with only one mission - to capture faces and traditions of various groups of indigenous people living there. While some of the ethnic groups are dominant in their regions, many others are on the edge of disappearance, with a total population as low as only a hundred people left. They remain largely unknown to the outside world.

#1 Dolgan Girl




#2 Ulchi Woman




#3 Sakha Girl




#4 Evenki Little Reindeer Herder




#5 Ulchi Girl




#6 Evenki Elder




#7 Uilta Little Girl




#8 Sakha Girl




#9 Evenki Little Girl




#10 Nivkhi Man




#11 Soyot Girl




#12 Evenki Girl




#13 Buryat Girl




#14 Tazy Woman




#15 Ainu Young Man




#16 Buryat Shaman




#17 Negidal Girl




#18 Oroqen Man




#19 Evenki Mom With Baby

[Kazimiera]

#20 Russkoustintsy Woman




#21 Shenehen Buryat Girl




#22 Chukcha Girl




#23 Yukagir Girl




#24 Buryat Man




#25 Even Young Man




#26 Ulchi Young Man




#27 Nanai Girl




#28 Udege Man




#29 Tofalar Man




#30 Orochi Woman




#31 Semeyskie Woman



#32 Tuvan Mongolian Man




#33 Yakut Shaman




#34 Udege Shaman




#35 Buryat Gelugpa Monk

[Columella]

Excellent pics

[Wadaad]

Not a single ripped t-shirt or faded blue jeans...these people need some FREEDOM

[Lavrentis]

Great post!

Interesting that the Ainu young man looks Japanese, I thought they looked different.

[Ziveth]

Great photos. They have so nice colorful clothes.

[Melki]

That's what I'm dreaming of doing

[Dandelion]

The harsh environment many of those people live in protected them from Russification, I think. Especially true for Sakha people (also known as Yakutsk people). 90% of them still speak their native language as their mother tongue, next to Russian.

Interesting how they're Turkic, that far North in Siberia.

[Dandelion]

I don't know whether this reddit autism has its place here, but it reminds me of how Russia is portrayed here.



http://i.imgur.com/00zeIky.png

Siberian regions sewn together with Russia. Not sure whether Russian members here would agree with this portrayal.

[aherne]

This one is interesting:

Tuva was mainly inhabited by Aryans 2000 years ago. This guy is some sort of Corded-Turanid mix, something that happens once in a while among Uyghur or Kirghiz.